Movies like The Poof Point
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The Poof Point (2001)
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is a movie about two scientists who invent a time machine. A critical part falls out of the time machine before they get into it to test it. Nothing seems to happen at first, but when they wake up the next day they are regressing in age (physically and mentally).
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disney, time machine, halloween, african american, inventor, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, rejuvenation, father son relationship, experiment gone awry, adult as child, switching roles, race against time, mother son relationship
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and offbeat films with plots about disney, youth, family relations, disorder, teenage life, father son relationship and teenager mostly in Comedy, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Poof Point: Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000), Not Quite Human (1987), Hounded (2001), The Even Stevens Movie (2003), Pet Shop (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A teenager's life is disrupted when her mother falls in love with an alien.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
alien, disney, parents and children, teenage life, fish out of water, youth, misfit, remarry, family relations, life turned upside down, high school life, halloween ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, love affair, androids, cyborgs, new world, family relations, high school, youth, a.i., androids and robots, dishonesty, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenager ends up being hounded by a well-groomed and seemingly cute and tiny dog that actually turns out to be a nightmare of a beast.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, teens, kids
Plot:
teenage boy, mischievous children, dog, eccentric family, teenage life, young heroes, nothing goes right, disney, family life, youth, pets, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Stevens think that they've won an all-expenses-paid trip to an island that's halfway around the world. When their house is destroyed, their food stolen, and their bacon eaten, the Stevens family breaks apart in front of all their ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
youth, family relations, disney, parents and children, teenage life, family life, nothing goes right, mischievous children, disorder, island, siblings relations, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kids' film about a couple of aliens who come to earth and open up a pet shop in an attempt to try and eat some of earth's children for dinner.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
alien, buddies, friendly alien, monster, witness protection, family relations, human trafficking, hitman, alien abduction, mob boss, witness protection program, brother sister relationship ...
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cat and Gene have been divorced for several years. They are both visiting their son and their grandchildren, Sydney and Willie. Willie's a genius who develops a formula that makes who uses it young again, it inadvertently spills into some soap ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
experiment, fountain of youth, experiment gone awry, twins, prodigy, child as adult, youth, disorder, aging, antidote, disney, family relations ...
Place:
australia, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Zenon Kar, a 13-year-old girl who lives on a space station in the year 2049, gets into some trouble and is banished to Earth. With help from some Earth friends she must find her way back.
Style:
futuristic, not serious, humorous
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, space, disorder, friends, misfit, escapades, teenager, earth, computer virus, black girl, friendship, space and aliens ...
Time:
2040s, future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Ben Cooper and his family struggling to get a grip on household chores, school and work. Ben is the family caretaker. So when Ben sees that a Smart House is being given away, he enters the competition as often as he can. The family wins the house ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, youth, childhood, family life, teenage life, parents and children, technology gone awry, computers and web, parent getting married, family relations, rivalry, man versus machine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, parody, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, college, experiment gone awry, robot, inventor, technology, father son relationship, university, goofy hero, inventions and discoveries, nothing goes right, fall in love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, psychotronic
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
disney, hypnosis, mind reading, animals, inventor, boy genius, friends, power relations, disorder, supernatural, buddies, mad scientist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced by an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, cyborgs, kidnapping, confined, escapades, save the day, obsessive quest, rivalry, human nature, a.i., master villain, androids and robots ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous, cult film, offbeat
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
disney, space exploration, space, alien, spacesuit, moon, satire, parents and children, alien encounter, space wars, space travel, space and aliens ...
Time:
60s
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.
Style:
humorous, romantic, scenic, semi serious
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time machine, high school, teenager, save the world, friendship, adventurer, disney, partners, escapades, existence paradox, youth ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The world goes backwards on Opposite Day. The kids become adults, and the adults become kids.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
child as adult, parents and children, fish out of water, disorder, switching roles, wish come true, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations, hopes, misfit, youth, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Medfield's lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor -- Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) -- bounces back in this classic Disney film with hilarious new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, intense, melancholic, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, mad scientist, american football, college, experiment gone awry, family life, inventions and discoveries, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, child as adult, fall in love ...
Time:
60s
Place:
pentagon, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.
Audience:
kids
Plot:
disney, twins, canceled wedding, sister sister relationship, live action, interior decorator
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 film starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, a student in the fictional Medfield College. A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. ...
Style:
campy, humorous, feel good, not serious, offbeat
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
disney, laboratory, fraternity, experiment, super powers, humour, rivalry, school, college, cow, arrest, overweight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two boys follow in their late fathers foot steps by inventing weird and wonderful gadgets. Trouble lies ahead when after a halloween party the spirit of their father ends up in the latest invention, a robot.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, weird, offbeat
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids, teen fantasy
Plot:
robot, teenager, youth, ghost, seance, family relations, halloween, halloween party, reporter, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, journalism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
disney, afterlife, redemption, youth, family relations, guardian angel, couples, hopes, love and romance, human spirit, unfulfillment, gangsters ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
TV remake of 1976 movie Freaky Friday.
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
body swapping, switching bodies, youth, woman, mother daughter relationship, bicycle, fish out of water, single mother, basketball, bully, cat, teacher ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
Style:
fairy tale
Plot:
twins, dwarf, secret, servant, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, missile, alien contact, brother sister relationship, colonel, sadist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
The joke's on absent-minded scientist Wayne Szalinski when his troublesome invention shrinks him, his brother and their wives so effectively that their children think they've completely disappeared. Of course, this gives the kids free rein ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
experiment gone awry, fish out of water, disorder, odd couple, rescue, mischievous children, nothing goes right, misfit, parents and children, survival, down on your luck, disney ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This remake of the beloved classic follows the raucous exploits of a blended family of 12, the Bakers, as they navigate a hectic home life while simultaneously managing their family business.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
disney, father, kids and family, mother child relationship, husband wife relationship, family relations, parents and children, family life, satire, father child relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Will Browning accidently creates a clone of himself when working on a science project.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, funny
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
youth, twins, cloning, disney, teenage life, nothing goes right, school, parents and children, disorder, ultimatum, popularity, junior high school ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic, clever ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
disney, alien, mars, martian, benign alien, fish out of water, space, nasa, hidden camera, disguise, chase, nude ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, inspirational, not serious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
mars, nasa, farce, space travel, space, adaptation, heroic mission, escapades, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, misfit, race against time ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of ...
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Samantha's band, the Zettabytes, is meeting with little success, so her friend Roscoe uses his knowledge of technology designed by his father to create a holographic lead singer, Loretta Modern. The band instantly becomes successful, but ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, feel good, romantic
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
disney, imaginary character, fall in love, ambition, desire for fame, music band, disorder, experiment gone awry, rising to stardom, love and romance, lifestyle, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good, offbeat
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
space and aliens, disney, youth, cooking and food, alien, halloween, buddies, friendly alien, misfit, spacecraft, satellite, young heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a ...
Style:
humorous, visually appealing, touching, sweet, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
computer, disney, friendship, gangsters, college student, underdog, culture clash, catastrophe, betrayal, adaptation, chase, childhood ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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